The colored man who has the temerity to agitate for his rights in the South may find himself agitating speedily at the end of a rope, unless he more speedily finds some hole in the ground to give him the protection which Government refuses him.
Grimké warns of the severe consequences for Black individuals who advocate for their rights in the South.
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That colored men with the ballot should be rated in terms of the political game higher than other colored men who have it not, violates no rule of business ethics.
Not at all, for they are most important, but without the ballot they are impotent to give the relief so much needed in the South.
It reaches down to the springs of fundamental social and political changes at the South in relation to its race question, and sets in motion the healing waters of its pool of Bethesda, which will in time heal it of its sickness and cleanse…
And this one thing needful, I believe, the Progressive Party brings to the solution of the problem, and that it formed the underlying motive and the statesmanlike purpose of the action at Chicago last August of Theodore Roosevelt.